Amanda bungartz

Biography

The fiery orange sunsets and lush green mountains of her childhood home, La Cañada, California, inspired creativity in Amanda Bungartz from a young age, but her love of writing really blossomed while studying abroad in Siena, Italy, during college. Her creative writing professor showed her the beauty of expression through words, and Bungartz was hooked. Soon after, she joined the student newspaper at Northern Arizona University (shout out to The Lumberjack), contributing a weekly op-ed column and covering women’s volleyball and men’s cross-country.

Post-college, Bungartz began her career in integrated marketing at a nonprofit, which eventually led to a stint at The New York Times. She’s been searching for a new way to combine her marketing experience with her love of writing ever since, and she’s excited to have found that opportunity at OZY as our branded content editor.

When Bungartz isn’t impressing clients and OZY fans with her rock-star prose, you can usually find her watching a Marvel movie, listening to a podcast — Reply All is an unrivaled auditory experience — or reading Hanya Yanagihara, whom she was lucky enough to overlap with at the Times. Bungartz is also obsessed with ice cream and dogs and is determined to find a way to combine the two. Perhaps an ice-cream café that lets customers play with adoptable dogs? Don’t worry, she already owns a dogs and ice cream URL so it’s definitely happening some day.…